Show HORRORS ARE SEEN I S IN LEAGUE B BY I SHERMAN I Senator Bitterly Assails I World Pact as Betrayal I of America By Press W WASHINGTON March The 3 constitution constitution con con- of the league of nations as presented at the peace conference was pictured to the senate today by Senator Senator Sena- Sena tor Sherman ot of Illinois Republican as asa asa a boxful of evils which would empty upon the American people peo- peo pl the aggregated calamities of the wo world d. d Senator Senator Sherman sharply criticised ed President Wilson asking who authorized authorIzed author author- him to rear above the republic republican an autocratic power lIe He added that the president had been acting either as a usurper or a dictator GROWS LITERARY Shall we not ask with the dramatist dramatist drama drama- the senator said Now In the i name of all the gods at once upon what does this Caesar feed that he I had grown so great l' l He adroitly maneuvers himself into I the spotlight as the fountain o of peace i perpetual and the guardian of mankind man man- kind Senator Sherman continued As he kept us out of war in 1916 so he will keep us out of Impending war conjured up to serve the Issues of 1920 and keep us at peace forever If we but accept him again Like his neutrality devIce was the prelude to unprepared war hIs peace league engages not in I one war but in all wars that scourge the earth It Is simple but deadly Apparently an open covenant of peace It Is a masked charter of unceasing war the voice of Mars 1 but the hando hand o of Woodrow 1 CHARGES OLIGARCHY I Of the proposed constitution Senator Senator Sena- Sena tor Sherman said it would set up an oligarchy of the worse possIble sort I adding If we cut the cables of constitutional constitutional government here we are taught aught In the Irresistible tides that will sweep us into the maelstrom of oC the old worlds world's blood currents The feuds and spoliation of a thousand years will become our daily chart of action All AI we know Is that a few men in some hIdden chamber known as the executive executive tive council wield over us' us powers of life Ufe and ancl death The creation of a nameless thing to sit In star chamber judgment and I decree implicit obedience to Its mandates mandates man man- dates cannot be borne by free man An ukase It will embargo our commerce commerce com com- I merce close our exchanges destroy credits leave our merchandise rotting on pier shut the Panama canal order I congress to declare war levy taxes approprIate money raise and support armies and navies and dispatch our I men to anY quarter of the globe to fight and die because an alien llen executive tive council has willed it It I SAYS SENATE WILL RESIST 1 Our sincere men may have deceived themselves in their great hope for a perfect world but no delusion however however how how- I ever sIncere will e excuse cuse this senate from Its duty to Interpose Its power against this universal utopia promised by the president It is the fabled apple of a a. great hope which will turn to toI ashes on a trusting peoples people's lips The I senate never faced a greater task nor nora nora a a nobler duty It will not ratify an emotion nor translate an Impossible idealism into a weapon of national sui- sui cide I Senator Sherman asserted that against the wIsdom and experIence of the American forefathers as summed up In Washington's farewell address there was now rising up the dreamer and the bookman boolman the Socialist the mere haberdasher In processes which IntoxIcate and mislead |